This is incredibly exciting, not because any of these ladies will be able to solve the issues that challenge everyday women, but because as more than 50 percent of the population, women deserve equal representation; more importantly, young girls will have role models other than Photoshopped models and actresses to look up to.

I remember being one of those young girls, searching for women who were doing the kind of work that I could see myself doing one day. (I will be forever grateful to Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall and Sylvia Earle for being some of the few women out there showing me what was possible when I was growing up.) Think about all the little girls in New Hampshire, and the rest of New England — which is very connected — who will come of age in a state governed, for better or for worse, by women.

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